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GoToSocial

Lightweight ActivityPub social network server
Is freely licensed? ✅
Decentralization
  • federated
User interface
  • gui
Target audience
  • end users
  • system administrators
Platforms
  • gnu/linux
  • bsd
Website https://gotosocial.org
Source https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
NLNet grant pages

GoToSocial is a lightweight ActivityPub social network server so communities can run a smaller Fediverse node without the footprint of a full Mastodon stack.

The Go footprint suits smaller hosts and single-operator nodes that want federation without a full Mastodon stack. Source is on Codeberg. Operators trade some Mastodon-era feature breadth for a leaner runtime and clearer resource bounds.

NLnet pages cover the base grant plus follow-on work toward a 1.0 line and scale hardening (GoToSocial, GoToSocial-1.0, GoToSocial-scale); the product focus here stays the lightweight server itself.

Project page (NLnet): GoToSocial.